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The reason, he suggested, was that news reports tend to overplay the importance of any particular piece of information.

It is difficult to overplay the importance of this kind of relationship for a child like Paul.

I think just about everybody - Guardian, Rutten, Okrent and the Times - is overplaying this issue.

In Britain, the police have been criticised for overplaying the risk of such an event taking place here.

I haven't looked into the money side of things but I think they have overplayed the amount of work needed to be done.

The conclusion is unwarranted, and involves overplaying the disagreements and their importance while ignoring the basic unity of canonical and doctrinal decisions.

The media has displayed utmost irresponsibility by overplaying the story.

However, the importance of the ICJ judgement has been dramatically overplayed by international commentators.

A Home Office spokesman said the British government would ‘absolutely not’ accept that it was guilty of overplaying the size of the problem in the UK.

The chief problem with life-style, and the explanation of consumption upon which it rests, is that it overplays the importance of consumption and consumerism in people's lives.

While this may make the book sound light-hearted (and at times it is very witty) the references are always germane and are never overplayed, so that they open up debates to a broader audience without trivialising the issues.

The director of the Edinburgh Film Festival said the film was influential but its overall importance was overplayed in Scotland.

That said, the rural-urban split should not be overplayed as the scale of pre-election intimidation doubtless served to distort the political process in the rural areas.

Having said all this, it is important not to overplay the Confucian card.

With 83% of all viewing taking place on terrestrial channels, the threat of multi-channel TV, however, is often overplayed.

But some people have criticized the media for overplaying the story and thus feeding public panic.

I do not think we have ever, at any stage, downplayed the risk to children, but it is important that we do not overplay the risk to children.

Their major claimed benefits may overplay the importance of sharing knowledge and expertise and underplay issues such as social conflict, cultural difference and opportunism.